{"id":84975,"date":"2023-06-08T01:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=84975"},"modified":"2023-06-08T00:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T04:44:58","slug":"gamestop-fires-ceo-names-ryan-cohen-executive-chairman-shares-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2023\/gamestop-fires-ceo-names-ryan-cohen-executive-chairman-shares-plummet.html","title":{"rendered":"GameStop fires CEO, names Ryan Cohen executive chairman; shares plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GME\/\">GameStop<\/a> fired its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/09\/gamestop-names-former-amazon-execs-matt-furlong-mike-recupero-as-its-new-ceo-cfo.html\">CEO Matthew Furlong<\/a> and appointed its board chairman Ryan Cohen as executive chairman effective immediately, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gamestop.gcs-web.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/gamestop-announces-election-ryan-cohen-executive-chairman\" target=\"_blank\">company said Wednesday<\/a>.\u00a0 Shares of GameStop dropped more than 20% in extended trading after the video game retailer announced the termination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/07\/gamestop-fires-ceo-names-ryan-cohen-executive-chairman.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) GameStop fired its CEO Matthew Furlong and appointed its board chairman Ryan Cohen as executive chairman effective immediately, the company said Wednesday.\u00a0 Shares of GameStop dropped more than 20% in extended trading after the video game retailer announced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84976,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84975\/revisions\/84976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}